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Jeb Vs Hillary
Topic Started: May 26 2006, 02:29 PM (422 Views)
roscoe
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I thought for a while that people would care when the fuel prices rose. Not about the environment but the price. Nope still bumper to bumper at 80 mph at all times of the day on the highways.

The lack of education our children get is easily blamed on teachers, classroom size and a host of other reasons but never on the lack of help from the parents who are too worn out but mainly don't want to be bothered.

Our political system is in a shambles. Both parties by the way All We have to do to change it is vote. Too much trouble to turn off the TV shows We all complain about and listen to or read about a candidate thats running.

Our country is like your own life. You get out of it what you put into it. I wish some would try harder.

Myself I'm getting nervous. Newt is appealing to Me. :biting:
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Newt's shifted into Social(ist) Conservatism, a place I cannot follow him.

Another name coming up is Mitt.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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DocInBird
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dang was that a brilliant reply. I nominate Lon. The sad part is that the Republican party machine will now destroy him, if just for practice.
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Just Doc and Orson (German Shepherd) wandering around North America.
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Lon Frank
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DocInBird
May 26 2006, 08:16 PM
dang was that a brilliant reply. I nominate Lon. The sad part is that the Republican party machine will now destroy him, if just for practice.

:faint:

Thanks a lot, Doc. My phone is officially off the hook, while I get my fingerprints removed!
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bikemanb
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If it comes down to Hill vs Jeb, ritual suicide comes to mind as an option. :spin:

I agree with Stoney I see nobody in either party that appeals to me at this time, a sad commentary for a great nation.
Bill, Rita and Chloe the Terror Cat

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
You know it's bad when American Idol outvotes the president.
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Taylor Hicks, 29, emerged as the winner in the finale of the TV show on Wednesday night in which 63m votes were cast. It is the biggest single voting night in the five-season history of the show. In the 1984 US presidential election, 54.5 million voters backed Ronald Reagan - the most votes obtained by a president.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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DocInBird
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Sorry about that, Lon.
--doc
Just Doc and Orson (German Shepherd) wandering around North America.
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DocInBird
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Chris, please telling me that you are kidding.
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Say it ain't so, Joe--where'd that line ccome from?

A dark vision: Nighthawks
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Do you detect a difference among conservatives these days? The talk about exporting American values to the Middle East is waning--eclipsed by worries about whether such values can survive unregulated immigration at home. One hears less about the wonders of tax cuts and more about the perils of government spending. Instead of attacking the left for denigrating American culture, the right is increasingly doing so itself. A switch has been flipped--one side of the right's brain is shutting down, and another is turning on. We are moving, once again, from the conservatism of day to the conservatism of night....
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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telcoman
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You guys need to break that 2 party system down there & get some more choice. Its' almost as bad as a one party system.
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DanHouck
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Land of Enchantment NM
Neither!

No more damn Bushes.

I'll vote Libertarian.

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ngc1514
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I think one of the sources of the low-caliber politicians we've had running the country is the primary election system. It has turned politics into a popularity contest and taken away from the parties the ability for them to select the best man/woman to run for president.

When was the last national convention when the nominee was not known before the delegates gathered? We need to go back to the smoke-filled rooms and let the party select who the nominee will be and not the primary system we have today.
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Agree on that one, Eric. Even as an individualist, there is such a thing as overdemocratization of the election process.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Is this the answer?

Ted Nugent: Off his rocker?
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During the private inaugural party at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in 2000, President George W Bush glanced across the room and recognised a man who - by his own account - has urinated on a nun, soiled his trousers for a week in order to avoid the draft, and been detained on a charge of indecent exposure, after experiencing difficulties with his loincloth in Little Rock, Arkansas. The President confronted him as a matter of urgency.

"When he noticed me," Ted Nugent recalls, "he was surrounded by these huge bankrollers from his campaign. He literally swept past all of them and said: 'Laura! Look who's here! It's Ted!' Then he hugged me and took me by the shoulders. He said: 'Just keep doing what you're doing. Don't think that we don't know what you're up to out here. Stay on course. You're doing great.'"...

"But since we're on the subject, what is so funny about peace, love and understanding?"

"You want to know how to get peace, love and understanding?" he replies. "Who doesn't know this? The Ku-Klux-Klan? The Black Panthers? Child rapists? How do you get peace, love and understanding? First of all you have to find all the bad people. Then," Nugent adds, "you kill them."
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
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abradf2519
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DocInBird
May 26 2006, 02:51 PM
there was this one bumper sticker. "It always takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush" W is as stupid as dirt. Jeb is far worse.

May I remind you that your president has an MBA, and went to Yale, and had better grades there, than the "smart" John Kerry?

He is not stupid as dirt. As a matter of fact, he's pretty smart, smarter than most people in the world.

It is this kind of thinking that is causing the division in America today. It is oviously untrue, yet people continue to believe it and pass it on. Just like the stupid "No blood for oil" chants. :faint:
Alan
Milan, New York, USA
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